Improvement in trunk-moldings



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

E. A. e. EoULSToNE, on EOXBUEY, MASSACHUSETTS."

IMPROVEMENT IN4 lRUNK-MOLDINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,458, dated November 6, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.' i

Beit known that I, E. A. G. RoULsToNE, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved lrunk Molding; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention, sufficient to enable those skilled in the'art to practice it.

The invention relates to the manner of protectin g or re-enforcing the corners of leather and wooden traveling trunks by metal caps or moldings, or to the construction of such moldings as articles of manufacture; and the invention 'consists in a metal molding made into form to cover or project over the three surfaces, meeting at each corner or angle of the trunk, when this molding, so struck up or formed into shape, is made of corrugated metal, re-enforced in the horizontal angle bya metal Wire.

Such moldings or corner pieces-applied to the four upper corners of a trunk enable the corners to stand without damage the very rough usage to which they are subjected by express and baggage men.

Any blow received upon the molding is imparted not directly to the trunk but to the projecting corrugation or corrugations of the metal upon which the blow may happen to fall, thereby preserving the body of the trunk from injury.

Such a molding is represented in the drawing, it being formed of a corrugated plate, a, bent into shape to lie against lthe three surfaces of a trunk, meeting at either solid angle, its upper edge. having a Wire, b, to stien the molding along this edge, and to keep the. sides in shape, the top plate c, bent over fromy the side plated, being lapped under or over and soldered, brazed,or:riveted to the plate e, ben't over from the plate`f." 2"" The article thus made into shape, ready for application to trunk-corners Without any subsequent shaping or bending', and so as to protect the three surfaces meeting at either angle of the trunk, and presenting, by means of the,l

E. A. G.ROULSTONE.

Witnesses: l

F. GOULD, S. B. KLDDER. 

